Clayton Centennial Contest Winners Celebrated

The City of Clayton celebrated the winners of the "Back to the Future" centennial competition at Monday, May 13, at City Hall. The contest, run by the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council, asked students of all grade levels to answer the question "What will Clayton be like in 100 years?"

Entrants could submit essays, poetry, art or video. Each winner received $100, courtesy ofCommerce Bank. In addition to the grade-level winners, the judges chose two Centennial Selections.

To view the winning entries, click here.

The winners are:

• Katherine Perrin, grade 1
• Esther Wang, grade 2
• Kate Freedman, grade 3
• Abigail Mann & Avery Kleinhenz, grade 4
• Anton Dmitriev, grade 5
• Rachel Schneider, grade 6
• Audrey Goedegebuure, grade 7
• Dani Skor, grade 9
• Connor Magner, grade 10
• Luke Auffenberg, grade 11
• Claudia Hoffmann, grade 12

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Centennial Selections:

• Casimir Buttar-Miller, grade 6
• Belle Gage, grade 4

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Special thanks to the judges: Mayor Linda Goldstein, Clayton School District Superintendent Sharmon Wilkinson, Designer Deanna Kuhlmann-Leavitt and Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Ellen Gale